Xenostar said:
kowenicki said:
thx1139 said:
Xenostar said:
I take it this means 360 shortages in the US were exaggerated at best.
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Again what Microsoft said was.
They ran out of 360s in early to mid December.
They then air shipped newly manufactured units that would have been put on boats.
360s will be in short supply late January through mid February.
This is because the units they were air shipping were meant to start arriving now. Those boats that were supposed to arrive now through mid February didnt leave because they were empty. So the shortages are really just starting now. Go to www.bestbuy.com and check store availability for your zip code. For mine I checked the 18 closest stores to me. No 250 GB 360, no 4GB 360, ship to store only for 250GB Kinect 360, and most have the 4GB Kinect 360. A week ago they were all available. So the shortages are starting.
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this has been explained many times... people just don't want to hear it.
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Ahh ok that makes more sense i hadn,t realised they brought there shipments forward using air freight, but sureley that means if they wanted they could still stop shortages if they wanted by carrying on with air freight, i guess that has a heavy cut into profitability tho and now xmas is over they may just take the hit and wait.
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Sooner or later they need to take the hit and taking the hit now makes the most fiscal sense.
